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elbow1126 |
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January 08, 2013 10:51:15am |
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GratefulDead
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New Dylan Release that has no chance of making that all-time sales list |
Sony is trying to keep copyright protection for an additional 20 years in Europe.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/arts/music/sony-issues-bob-dylan-recordings-to-keep-european-copyright.html?_r=0In an unusual response to provisions in a new European copyright law, scheduled to take effect by 2014, Sony Music has released a compilation of early Bob Dylan recordings that is bound to become one of his most collectible albums. “The 50th Anniversary Collection,” which carries a subtitle — “The Copyright Extension Collection, Vol. 1” — that explains its purpose, was rushed to only a handful of record shops in Germany, France, Sweden and Britain just after Christmas.
Sony Music has released a new compilation of previously unreleased Bob Dylan studio outtakes and live recordings from 1962 and 1963. Only about 100 copies of the four-CD set were produced, with sparse packaging and an insert listing the details of the set’s 86 tracks, all previously unreleased studio outtakes and live recordings from 1962 and 1963.
It also comes as a downloadable version, available through the singers’s Web site, bobdylan.com, but only to fans who log on from France or Germany. (Prices for the CD set vary from country to country, from the equivalent of $39 to, in Britain, $138)
American collectors are locked out, although for those desperate to have an original CD set, several have made their way to eBay, where bids have gone as high as about $1,450. (For collectors who want the recordings, but who don’t care about having one of the 100 original CDs, the set has been turning up on file-sharing sites.)
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JackDog |
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January 09, 2013 12:53:52pm |
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Sony sucks. |
I hate Sony in all of their forms, so it's nice to have another item to add to my list of why I hate them.
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light into ashes |
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January 08, 2013 05:25:31pm |
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Re: New Dylan Release that has no chance of making that all-time sales list |
Naked greed at its finest...
86 tracks, all from 1961-62 outtakes & live shows...this thing is huge:
http://www.discogs.com/Bob-Dylan-The-50th-Anniversary-Collection-The-Copyright-Extension-Collection-Vol-I/release/4142612 What's more, on the bright side, they may feel compelled to put out more releases like this in the next couple years to keep up with the European copyright expiration.
On further thought, this seems like a win-win situation. The prospect of even more releases like this is a bonanza, and it seems more like a desperate move from Sony than a "greedy" desire to keep all Dylan's early outtakes under copyright. This set will be all over the internet as illicit downloads anyway, even if the original CDs are unattainable.
I wish the US had copyright laws that forced companies to actually release old stuff in order to retain rights to it, rather than keeping it locked up til it rots.
This post was modified by light into ashes on 2013-01-09 01:25:31
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elbow1126 |
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January 10, 2013 01:11:17am |
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GratefulDead
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Re: New Dylan Release that has no chance of making that all-time sales list |
I think it also points to the state of the business today. You would think that if they were going to bother to release something to protect their rights they would make it available to a larger market. Just open the vault for download as it were. Instead Sony thinks they can ultimately make more money by using a ploy like this to protect their investment for some future use knowing full well that as you and the NYT article state that this release will be all over the Internet anyways. I think this speaks volumes to how little these companies make with digital releases and why Rhino/GDP would rather try to sell 13000 copies of a CD release than creating a digital store.
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light into ashes |
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January 10, 2013 09:37:49am |
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Re: New Dylan Release that has no chance of making that all-time sales list |
What I think is funny is that a release like this basically is "opening the vault for download." It's not like they're making much profit from these 100 copies, and I'm sure only a few of these tracks would ever be used for some future Bootleg Series volume, maybe decades from now!
The timeline is what strikes me too - since the renewal takes effect in 2014, that means releases like this only have to go up to 1963 (with Dylan, meaning Times outtakes & maybe some live '63 shows). So I guess this won't go beyond a volume 2.
The NYT article noted that "fans of bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones are hoping that such releases are in the offing" - unfortunately, those groups hadn't done that much recording prior to '64. Maybe the next year will see a little flurry of 1963 archival releases from various bands?
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